John 9:4
I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day: the night is coming, when no one is able to work.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
In Context
5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever your hand is able to do, do it earnestly. For neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge will exist in death, toward which you are hurrying.
Matthew 20:7They say to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also may go into my vineyard.’
Luke 13:32And he said to them: “Go and tell that fox: ‘Behold, I cast out demons and accomplish healings, today and tomorrow. And on the third day I reach the end.’
John 5:19Then Jesus responded and said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son is not able to do anything of himself, but only what he has seen the Father doing. For whatever he does, even this does the Son do, similarly.
John 10:32Jesus answered them: “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”
John 11:9Jesus responded: “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the daylight, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
Matthew Henry on John 9:2-8
Sight Given to One Born Blind. 1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 6 When he had thus… Read the whole commentary →